Modern Art
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
The right must learn from modern art
Marcel Duchamp’s rule-breaking provides real lessons for the right
The elephant in the avant-garde
The totalitarian trend in Modernism demands acknowledgement
The Sagan standard
Liverpool’s Biennial rhetoric forgets about art
Pain, poise and passion
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: String quartets 1-3 (Naxos)
Complexity on canvas
Women abstract artists step out of the shadows
Women on the edge
A feminist frame that doesn’t fit
Biting the hand that feeds them
So-called “radical” performance art is little more than a publicly-funded alliance between the art establishment and faux-rebellious poseurs
Among the deathworks
On culturing culture
The timelessness of Henry Moore
How a modernist bogeyman became an Old Master
The EU’s war on Hungary
As news breaks of secret EU plans to cripple the Hungarian economy, who can still believe it respects national sovereignty?
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
The Age of Twee
Line up and clap for the NHS, wankpuffin
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
The royals needs better PR
We have seen too many royal disasters
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
Sloane danger
Obvious, expensive and tasteless, Azzurra’s food perfectly echoes Mr Angell’s ambience
The truth is out there
Henry Staunton is dismissed as dangerously “erratic” by the powers that be, but he may just be telling the truth, no matter how weird
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
